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Electrophotographic magnetic dry developer containing cerium oxide and hydrophobic silica
Assignee: Canon Inc
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Filing: 1988-09-12
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Granted: 1989-04-25
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Expires: 2008-09-12
Abstract
Abstract A magnetic dry developer, comprising negatively chargeable insulating magnetic toner particles containing, at least, a binder resin, a magnetic substance, and an organo-chromium or -zinc complex; cerium oxide particles containing CeO 2 as a predominant component and having a volume average particle size of 1.0 to 4.0 microns, a heating loss of 0.5 wt. % or less on heating up to 100° C. and a BET specific surface area of 15 m 2 /g or less as measured by the nitrogen adsorption method; and hydrophobicity-imparted negatively chargeable silicon oxide particulates. The cerium oxide particles have a function of disintegrating particularly the hydrophobicity-imparted silicon oxide particulates and enhance the attachment thereof to the toner particles, whereby the developing characteristics including the magnetic triboelectric chargeability are stabilized from the initial stage of electrophotographic copying operation.
Inventors
- 👤 Satoshi Yasuda
- 👤 Mitsuru Uchida
- 👤 Seiichi Takagi
- 👤 Yusuke Karami
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-09 06:26
CPC Classifications
G; G03; G03G; G03G9/00; G03G9/08; G03G9/097; G03G9/09783; G03G9/09708; Y; Y10; Y10S; Y10S430/00; Y10S430/001; Y10S430/104
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 19
Claim 1
Independent Claim
105 words
A magnetic dry one-component developer, comprising: negatively chargeable insulating magnetic toner particles containing, at least a binder resin, a magnetic substance and an organo-chromium or -zinc complex having a negative chargeability controlling property; cerium oxide particles containing CeO 2 as a predominant component and having a volume average particle size of 1.0 to 4.0 microns, a heating loss of 0.5 wt. % or less on heating up to 100° C. and a BET specific surface area of 15 m 2 /g or less as measured by the nitrogen absorption method; and hydrophobicity-imparted negatively chargeable silicon oxide particulates having a methanolic hydrophobicity of 40% or more.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
105 words
A magnetic dry one-component developer, comprising: negatively chargeable insulating magnetic toner particles containing, at least a binder resin, a magnetic substance and an organo-chromium or -zinc complex having a negative chargeability controlling property; cerium oxide particles containing CeO 2 as a predominant component and having a volume average particle size of 1.0 to 4.0 microns, a heating loss of 0.5 wt. % or less on heating up to 100° C. and a BET specific surface area of 15 m 2 /g or less as measured by the nitrogen absorption method; and hydrophobicity-imparted negatively chargeable silicon oxide particulates having a methanolic hydrophobicity of 40% or more.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
34 words
A developer according to claim 1, wherein the cerium oxide particles are incorporated in an amount of 0.1 to 5 wt. parts per 100 wt. parts of the negatively chargeable insulating magnetic toner particles.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
37 words
A developer according to claim 1, wherein the hydrophobicity-imparted negatively chargeable silicon oxide particulates are incorporated in an amount of 0.01 to 3 wt. parts per 100 wt. parts of the negatively chargeable insulating magnetic toner particles.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
29 words
A developer according to claim 1, wherein the organo-chromium complex is added in an amount of 0.1 to 10 wt. % based on the weight of the binder resin.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
35 words
A developer according to claim 4, wherein the organo-chromium complex is a chromium complex salttype monoazo dye, chromium complex of salicylic acid, chromium complex of an alkylsalicylic acid or chromium complex of a dialkylsalicylic acid.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
29 words
A developer according to claim 1, wherein the organo-zinc complex is added in an amount of 0.1 to 10 wt. % based on the weight of the binder resin.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
25 words
A developer according to claim 1, wherein the organo-zinc complex is a zinc acetylacetone complex, a zinc EDTA complex or a zinc picolinic acid complex.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
14 words
A developer according to claim 1, wherein the magnetic toner has a triboelectric chargeability.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
20 words
A developer according to claim 8, wherein the magnetic toner has an electric resistance of 10 10 Ωcm or more.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
28 words
A developer according to claim 9, wherein the magnetic toner contains 30 to 100 wt. parts of the magnetic substance per 100 wt. parts of the binder resin.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
21 words
A developer according to claim 1, wherein the magnetic toner has a volume average particle size of 5 to 30 microns.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
26 words
A developer according to claim 1, wherein the binder resin is a styrene resin, a styrene/acrylic ester resin, a styrene/methacrylic ester resin or a polyester resin.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
80 words
A developer according to claim 1, wherein the magnetic toner particles have a triboelectric chargeability and an electric resistance of 10 13 Ωcm or more, the cerium oxide particles are incorporated in an amount of 0.1 to 5 wt. parts per 100 wt. parts of said toner particles, and the silicon oxide particles having a methanolic hydrophobicity of 40% or more are incorporated in an amount of 0.01 to 3 wt parts per 100 wt. parts of said toner particles.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
65 words
A developer according to claim 13, wherein the toner particles contain 0.5 to 5 wt. % of the organo-chromium complex based on the weight of the binder resin, and the organo-chromium complex comprises a compound selected from the group consisting of a chromium complex salt-type monoazo dye, chromium complex of salicylic acid, chromium complex of an alkylsalicylic acid and chromium complex of a dialkylsalicylic acid.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
34 words
A developer according to claim 14, wherein the binder resin comprises a resin selected from the group consisting of a styrene resin, a styrene/acrylic ester resin, a styrene/methacrylic ester resin and a polyester resin.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
57 words
A developer according to claim 13, wherein the toner particles contain 0.5 to 5 wt. % of the organo-zinc complex based on the weight of the binder resin, and the organo-zinc complex comprises a compound selected from the group consisting of a zinc complex salt-type monoazo dye, and zinc complex of salicylic acid and an alkylsalicylic acid.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
34 words
A developer according to claim 16, wherein the binder resin comprises a resin selected from the group consisting of a styrene resin, a styrene/acrylic ester resin, a styrene/methacrylic ester resin and a polyester resin.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
22 words
A developer according to claim 13, wherein the cerium oxide particles have a volume average particles size of 1.5 to 3.5 microns.
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